# 142 million computer hours donated to cancer research

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/06/14/142-million-computer-hours-donated-cancer-research/
- Published: 2001-06-14T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

United Devices reports that since 3 April 2001 over 435,904 members signed up to
donate their PCs’ spare processing capacity to the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research
Project.
United Devices reports that since 3 April 2001 over 435,904 members signed
up to donate their PCs’ spare processing capacity to the Intel-United Devices Cancer
Research Project. Over 665,757 computers are now helping the project avoid spending
money on expensive super-computer access. This donated processing capacity has generated
over 140,092,201 computer-processing hours.

Find out more about this peer-to-peer (P2P) initiative from [United Devices and Oxford University](http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/proj_news.htm)
and the Intel Philanthropic P2P program.

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